"planning to reconstitute his programs once UN sanctions were lifted"--which is yet another reason why the Bush regime's propaganda campaign to link Saddam and 9-11 was a crock--from Day 1. Saddam did not want anything to stop the loosening of sanctions--and 9-11 put a screeching halt to that loosening. Saddam had everything to lose and nothing to gain by attacking the US directly. And he knew it.